I have the same issue with my JF bracelet. That 1 link just does not seem to like staying in place.
It’s not really a spring bar. It’s a tube with a spring inside it and the ends are stuck in place. When 1 side gets stuck, that seems to be why it pops out.
You kinda have to pull the entire link apart to see what’s going on. I re-assembled the whole thing, used some claps to tighten the hell out of the link and it did work but that link got extremely hard to move up and down. Then, it eventually fell apart again.
When you hold it up to the light you will see a gap in that link. It got pulled apart when you were trying to adjust it to get the spring bar to snap in place. You just have to get the spring and the ends in the correct spots and push them back together again.
The way these are made from what I’ve found out is that the ends had holes in them that are laser welded once the pin and the tubes are in place.
I did think about using superglue but I’m still iffy about that because I don’t want that link to be glued together either.
Here is a short video of someone demonstrating the tool to disassemble and then reassemble the oyster bracelet.
You can see the links are held in place by the tube and they all look like 1 solid piece (spring bar looking)
https://youtu.be/_0Ex0q49SdQ
Here’s one for the jubilee bracelet, which has similar construction if not exactly the same.
https://youtu.be/aphVSzced9I
Either way, it’s a pain in the ass.
Did you ever get it to be reassembled?
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